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Copyrighted  1899 

BY 

Emile  Coulon 


FRESS   OF 

Bradlev  &  Cunningham 
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PART    1. 


Caro  lector,  a  lo-~  otros  cantos  espera 
Los  cuales  seguiran,  se  entiende, 
Si  estos  te  gustan  y  la  edicion  se  vende. 

De  Espronceda. 


Contents  of  Part  I. 


Introduction, 

Editor  s  Answer, 

Intellectual  Culture, 

Mediocrity, 

Friendship, 

Urbanity, 

Humbugs, 

Their  Ladyships, 

Shakespeare, 

The  Little  Fellows, 

Tribute  to  France, 


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INTRODUCTION 


I  N  as  much  as  the  French  mind  has  a  clearer  and  more 
acute  perception  of  persons  and  things  in  general, 
{so  says  William  Matthews,  one  of  the  best  ivriters  that  this 
country  has  produced),  as  stated  by  Dr.  Lord  of  Stamford, 
in  his  '■'Beacon-Lights  of  History,"  though  lacking  that 
schrewdness  and  boldness  which  characterize  what  peopl' 
usually  call  the  Anglo-Saxon  race ;  it  was  my  fate  to 
return,  after  more  than  thirty  years'  absence,  among  a 
society  where  as  a  teacher  and  younger  man,  I  had  re- 
ceived so  many  marks  of  esteem,  friendliness  and  con- 
sideration. 

Returning,  under  sad  circumstances,  to  what  I  had 
considered  a  Home;  bereft  of  every  one  of  my  kindred, 
ease  and  comfort  which  I  had  unfortunately  sacrificed  in 
hair-brained  speculations  at  the  Bourse  of  Paris,  hence 
on  the  altar  of  Mammon,  I  was  gratified  with  the  flatter- 
ing recollection  that  my  name  and  labours  had  not  been 
altogether  forgotten. 

In  order  to  insure  a  more  persistent  success,  in  my 
endeavors  to  regain  that  former  favor  I  had  enjoyed  in 
my  younger  days,  1  published  some  *  poetical  effusions 
and  portraits  in  English  and  in  French,  with  the  expec- 
tation they  would  enhance  my  merit,  and  counterbalance 
my  loss  of  youth  and  beauty. 


*  Printed  and  published  in  Toronto  by  M.  M.  Rowsell  and  Hutchison. 


INTRODUCTION 


Alas !  I  was  soon  to  learn  that  my  compositions 
were  beyond  the  mark,  since  they  were  keenly  felt  ob- 
noxious by  some,  because  the  cap  fitted  so  7veU ;  and  from 
that  time  henceforth,  I  had  to  contend  with  a  malicious 
and  studied  opposition,  which  should  render  vain  and 
useless  the  laurels  I  had  already  won  among  the  daugh- 
ters of  my  former  pupils. 

It  will  not  be  presuming  too  much  if  I  undertake 
to  lay  before  an  unprejudiced  public  my  experience  of  near- 
ly two  years'  residence  in  Toronto,  during  which  time  I 
employed  my  leisure  hours  to  delineate  some  peculiar  fea- 
tures, tempers,  thoughts  and  actiofts  that  forced  themselves  up>on  me. 

Though  delayed  in  their  publication,  these  composi- 
tions have  still  a  smack  of  actuality;  and  this  English  por- 
tion, I  hope,  may  be  better  understood  than  my  former 
that  had  been  almost  all  written  in  French. 


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EMILE   COULON. 


Stamford,  Conn.,    March,   1899. 


INTELLECTUAL      CULTURE 


OUR     EDITOR'S    ANSWER 

Let  ye,  however,   recollect 
We  do  not  belong  to  a  sect. 

Be  it,  what  it  may,  excellent, 
Do  not  think  for  one  moment 
To  bring  out  as  a  precedent 
What  you  really  think  so  potent. 

And  we  cannot  so  well  article, 
Nor  do  we  thus  lightly  chronicle 
What  might,  indeed,  mar  the  favour 
Of  those  who  do  us  the  honour, 

And  to  our  work  subscribe  ; 
Whose  names  we  treasurely  inscribe 
In  the  close  memory  of  our  ledger. 
By  which  our  work  fares  the  better. 


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INTELLECTUAL  CULTURE 

Many  there  were  that  did  his  picture  get, 
To  serve  their  eyes,  and  in  it  put  their  mind- 

Shakespeare, 

Intellectual  culture  is  very  low  ebbed, 

Because  it  is  with  much  care  in  idleness  webbed  ! 

Most  of  men  make  far  more  use  of  arithmetic 

To  pay  off  bills  of  fare,  tailors'  fashion  to  fit 

Than  use  their  own  brains  or  something  more  poetic; 

Therefore,  do  they  add  very  queer  notions,  to  wit. : 


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INTELLECTUAL      CULTURE 


They  make  up  for  any  I'mvard  deficiency 

By  secured  flatter}'  and  pompous  self  esteem, 

Which  consists  in  that  light  and  loud  proficiency 

With  which  vain  glorious  men,  precious  women  do  teem; 

In  praiseworthy  compliments  on  the  cut  of  dress, 

The  which  does  so  poor  people  and  shopkeepers  impress. 


With  that  lofty  and  so  apparent  mental  show 
That  brass  will  glitter  brighter  than  gold  any  how. 
But  then,  what  of  that,  since  great  physical  training 
Sums  up  in  the  dear  end  all  qualities  wanting ; 
And  long  live  that  croquet  with  its  elegant  swing 
That  gives  women  a  gentle  and  more  ladylike  spring  ! 


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For  thus  tennis,  golf,  baseball,  boating,  bicycling, 
To  which  may  be  added  riding,  enlarge  muscles. 
More  fit  for  athletes,  say  for  big  boys  or  young  men; 
3  ''Ce  those  exercises  hasten  the  blood's  pulses, 
3at  do  not  always  suit,  let  us  say,  to  maintain 
''^^fi  languid  air,  the  pallid  and  somnolent  cheek 


Of  ladies  who  wouldn't  for  a  world  forego,  each  week, 

The  remarkable,  desirable,  fashionable  visits 

Where  they  can  easily  lavish  their  ready  wits 

By  conversations  on  good  health  and  babies'  praise, 

The  weather,  the  rain,  the  sun,  th'  wind,  the  dust,  the  heat; 

Which  combined  with  a  fev^  gossips,  is  all  they  can  raise 

In  so  short  a  time  and  place  where  ladies  so  meet. 


FRIENDSHIP 

Such  is  for  many  the  heavy  duties  of  life 

For  which  husbands  money  make  with  trouble  and  strife. 

Let  us  no  longer  pity  dear  simplicity 

Which  will  not  bring  with  it  plentiful  variety 

or  vanities,  fancies  or  other  implements 

That  toll  more  than  learning  five  or  six  elements. 


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MEDIOCRITY.* 

There  are,  I  am  loath  to  say,  many  people 

Who  do  feel  that  sort  of  mediocrity, 

That  will  make  them  rise  in  audacity. 

Therefore,  do  they,  in  their  run  /or  power, 

Upset  all  rules  of  common  propriety. 

Their  short  sightedness  with  which  they  are  blessed, 

Makes  them  see  only  what  is  interested. 


*  In  answer  to  a  lady. 


FRIENDSHIP 


No,  I  am  that  I  am,  and  they  that  level 
At  my  abuses  reckon  up  their  own. 

Shakespkare,  Son.  cxxi. 

Often  is  friendship,  so  called  derived 
From  strange  causes  as  yet  undecided. 
Oft  too,  does  it  spring  from  necessity; 
Oft  'gain  and  anon  in  adversity; 
Many  a  time  also  in  dear  piety, 
And,  I  may  add  to  it,  in  vanity. 


lO  FRIENDSHIP 

It  may  likely  reckoned  be  perchance 

As  the  result  of  that  nonchalance 

That  tequires,  be  it  said,  wherewith  to  fill 

All  those  idle  hours  of  him  who  has  some  ill, 

Which  he  may  from  his  brain  disperse 

By  jovialities  and  gaieties  diverse. 

Let  him  not,  indeed,  meet  such  a  fellow 
Who  would  his  own  freedom  and  wit  allow! 
And  make  that  friend,  so  far  as  we  know, 
Find  pretty  soon  the  real  state  of  his  brow. 
Then,  will  that  friendship  be  soon  at  an  end, 
Since  it  will  no  longer  serve  nor  pretend 
To  humor  the  wiles  and  the  morbid  trouble, 
When  that  head  of  his  is  all  in  a  muddle. 

Hidden  weakness  and  heart's  debility 
Can't  very  long  stand  ready  scrutiny; 
His  religion,  ways,  means,  feelings  and  words 
Couldn't  vibrate  any  more  on  the  same  chords. 
And  a  master,  though,  as  he  thought  he  was, 
Makes  him  understand  he  no  longer  has 
Any  such  parts  as  others  possessed, 
And  as  such  gives  him  up  quite  disgusted. 

Very  soon  will  the  green-eyed  monster 
All  his  venom  and  spite  muster 
To  hurl  down  with  vim  and  studied  ardour 
His  sly  dormant  ire,  and  bring  disf.  .  our 
Against  him  who  7vas  to  have  been  his  play, 
And  against  which  he  has  nothing  to  say. 


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Such  a  man  is  bereft  of  real  goodness 

Who  will  not  in  others  bear  happiness, 

Because  he  himself  sees  no  other  fame 

Save  that  which  is  stamped  with  his  own  name. 


URBANITY 

Lo,  this  only  have  I  found  that 
God  has  made  man  upright. 

ECCLESIASTES   VII.,  20 

Some  ignorant  people  take  politeness 
As  tantamount  a  sign  of  lowness; 
Therefore  will  they  show  high  dignity 
By  utmost  want  of  civility. 

And  when  for  necessity  used, 
Shall  be  received  and  hence  diffused 
Among  vulgar  and  common  outcome 
0/  country  cronies  thus  thought  handsome 

To  adorn  city  streets,  grammar  schools. 
More  fit  to  use  a  yard,  sell  cotton  spools. 
Than  cram  their  heads  with  literature 
That  requires  city  life  investiture; 


Hence,  t'ley'll  apply  their  figuring  propensity 
To  numbers,  multiplication  tables,  their  hobby, 
Which  sure  would  give  them  greater  measures 
Of  what  is  drawn  from  Euclid's  figures. 


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They  will  understand  that  better  science 
Which  sums  up  pounds,  shillings  and  pence, 
Than  that  hollow,  light  poetical  art 
That  couldn't  give  them  enough  to  hire  a  cart. 

What  matters  it,  if  we  should  learn  how 
The  Greeks,  Romans  or  others  did  know 
We,  humble  followers  of  those  masters, 
Are  nothing  than  poor  imitators? 


HUMBUGS 

Unless  this  general  evil  they  maintain. 
All  men  are  bad  and  in  their  badness  reign. 
Shakespeare,  Son.  cxxi. 

The  world,  I  am  afraid,  is  all  over  the  same  ! 
It  is  none  the  less  for  this  or  for  that  a  great  shame 
That  we  should  see  so  many  ills  and  quacks  prevail 
In  every  department  of  life:  it  is  wail. 

Everybody  seems  to  have  no  other  thought 

Than  vices  and  devices  with  which  all  is  fraught; 

And  which  must  give  more  power  and  have  deal  more  sway 

Than  good  sense,  charity  or  other  points  could  weigh. 

Struggle  for  poor  and  dear  life  has  come  to  that  extent, 
That  all  will  run,  dance,  laugh,  cringe  and  even  invent 
Harmful  gossip,  plausible  stories  and  biggest  lie, 
To  get  what  will  give  them  power  sky  high. 


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It's  no  use  for  man  to  strive  and  be  respectable; 
Feigned  gentility,  appearance  more  acceptable 
Than  real  worth,  virtue,  knowledge,  sterling  qualities, 
Which  would  put  a  slur  on,  make  people  quake  to  forties. 

When  you  can  by  cheat,  deceit  your  fortune  insure. 
What  matters  it,  if  people  know  otherwise  for  sure? 
Your  fellow  bystanders  who  themselves  are  worthless. 
Require  their  friends  to  put  up,  silent,  powerless. 
With  your  ways,  means,  pleasure,  follies  and  meanest  trick, 
However  vicious,  bad,  hurtful,  if  they  do  stick. 

"  Let  not  adversity  with  pale  face  atrocity 
"  Look  close  in  your  face ;  avoid  its  intensity 
"Which  would  make  of  you  a  miserable,  a  p  uper 
"Who,  from  being  admired,  would  become  admirer. 

Show  no  science,  no  superiority,  good  breeding ; 
It's  no  use,  they  must  in  the  end  be  but  ruining. 
Chances  of  feeling  with  vulgarity  common 
Would  work  better  for  you,  for  this  very  reason 
That  they  would  with  scorn  consider  humility 
Fit  to  command  their  attention,  their  charity. 

Times  have  changed,  and  the  ways  of  Old  Testament 
Have  come  around  'gain  with  the  same  element : 
Jews*  predominate  now  just  as  they  did  of  yore  ; 
Jesus,  I  am  afraid,  for  which  I  am  so  sore. 
Suffered  ignominious  death  ^o  redeem  our  sins 
That  are  growing  again  more  plentiful  than  pins. 


*  In  the  sense  o(  hypocrites  and  sinners. 


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THEIR     LADYSHIPS 


The  world,  as  it  is,  in  its  wanton  selfishness. 
Becomes  more  in  favour  of  and  runs  for  riches. 
Art,  science,  painting,  poetry,  feeling,  perchance, 
Shall  no  longer  prosper ;  they  are  looked  askance 
As  slurs  on  stupidity,  ignorance,  favour. 
When,  now-a-days,  every  thing  depends  on  number. 

"Brass,  cheek,  impudence,  common  parlance  seem  to  glim 
"  Bright  above  benevolent  persevering  vim; 
"And  must  side  with  malice,  prejudice,  cowardice 
"Which  make  up  what's  required  for  worldly  device. 


THEIR    LADYSHIPS 

Feigned  gentility,  appearance  more  acceptable 
Than  real  worth,  virtue,  knowledge,  sterling  qualities 
Which  would  put  a  slur  on,  make  people  quake  to  forties. 

E.  C. 

I  know  not  how  many  of  those  for  evergreen 
Whom  I  have  more  than  once  or  many  a  time  seen. 
Who,  as  ladies  or  women,  did  not  really  know. 
Because  they  were  by  nature  more  fit  for  the  plow, 
And  yet  belonged,  they  said,  to  a  first  class  band, 
The  difference  between  their  le/t  or  their  right  hand. 

It's  indeed  most  ludicrous  to  hear  them  so  speak 
Made  up  words  and  sentences  as  some  ci  their  streak. 
To  impress  and  try  and  make  knowing  j  eople  believe 
Tl.ey  learned  something  else  other  than  mend  a  sleeve. 
You'll  see  them  for  hours  deaf,  mute  and  dumb, 
Not  to  know  what  to  do,  except  look  at  their  thumb. 


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Or,  if  tired  of  a  day's  shopping  or  visiting, 

Fall  asleep  in  the  midst  of  pathetic  reading. 

They,  of  course,  would  sure  on  Sundays  wear  fine  bonnets, 

And  look  down  'pon  people,  as  would  so  many  hornets; 

Return  home,  having  understood  of  the  sermon 

As  much  as  a  fish  would,  were  it  even  a  salmon. 

To  think  that  such  females  as  uncouth  as  their  males, 
Expect  good,  sensible  people,  from  their  very  entrails, 
To  come  and  respect  and  honour  their  ladyships, 
Makes  an  intelligent  man  laugh  and  split  his  lips. 
Such  is  the  power  of  position  or  favour, 
That  all  in  a  rush  the  ignorant  will  clamour : 

Hoy-toity,  let  us  marry  none  else  than  ladies 
Who  will  stamp  us  for  gentlemen  in  those  families 
That  will  proudly  look  contemptuously  on  others 
As  a  pack  of  small,  insignificant  strollers. 
Long  live  my  useful  and  high,  lofty  dignity 
Which  obliges  vulgar  people  to  call  me  a  lady ! 


SHAKESPEARE 

The  immortal  Shakespeare  we  all  admire, 
Never  had,  has  or  ever  will  he  see 
A  mate  who  could  really,  truly  aspire 
To  the  height  he  carried  beyond  the  sea, 
At  a  time  when  learned  men  were  as  few 
As  quiet,  harmonious  peace,  religion  knezi). 


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THE     L  IT  T  L  F:     FELLOWS 


Elizabeth's  reign,  so  glorious  for  a  qu^en 

By  Shaket;peare's  creations,  more  enabled  has  been 

Than  by  the  deeds  of  all  her  warriors, 

Or  the  former  great  names  of  conquerors. 

Shakespeare  was  enough  to  give  bright  luster 
To  a  country,  a  queen  that  did  further 
The  religious  tendency  of  the  time 
With  which  Henry  VIII  made  politics  chime. 

There  is  far  more  depth  and  knowledge,  art  and  science 
In  Shakespeare's  ready  wit  and  brilliant  parlance, 
Than  politicians,  scientists  or  preachers 
Could  ever  think  or  dream  of  being  masters. 

His  keen,  deep  knowledge  of  men  and  women, 
Who  did  not  then  harp  on  lady's  notiien, 
Gives  him  who  studies,  a  very  bright  view 
Of  men's  passions,  women's  desires  and  due; 

And  whatever  doth  linger  in  people's  hearts 
Who  to  virtue  prefer  more  winsome  arts. 

THE    LITTLE    FELLOWS 

I  have  often  been  much  amrsed 
To  see  children  go  lazily  to  school, 
Trying  very  hard  to  learn  those  parts 
Of  their  lessons  they  were  to  repeat. 
Which  gave  them  such  a  heap  of  trouble, 
When  their  chapters  so  awfully  long,. 
Made  them  hate  the  very  names  and  dates 
With  which  history  is  so  thronged. 


A     TRIBUTE     TO     FRANCE 


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I  was  ready  to  ask  those  children 
What  made  them  groan  with  so  much  pain 
They  had,  they'd  say,  so  many  lessons 
From  chapter  such  to  such  another, 
Without  omitting  the  dates  and  names 
Of  famous  men,  women  or  captains 
That  had  overrun  so  many  countries 
And  laid  waste  immense  tracks  of  land. 
To  exhibit  or  show  the  valour 
Of  one  nation  r  ver  another. 


A   TRIBUTE   TO    FRANCE 

Respectfully  inscribed  to  M.  EMILE  LOU  BET,  the  worthy 
President  of  the  French  Republic. 

When  the  Colonies  of  Great  Britain 

Formerly  rose  in  anger  to  obtain 

The  liberties  for  which  her  children 

Had  left  her  land  and  her  viain, 

It  v/as  thought  that  the  sad  memory 

Of  their  struggles  with  the  mother  country 

Would  lie  deeply  and  firmly  set 

In  the  hearts  of  those  who  had  met 

With  Washington  and  Lafayette. 

The  sister  Republic  fast  to  the  shore 

Of  fettered  Europe  against  which  she  bore, 

Single-handed,   her  free  and  bravest  sons, 

Contends  yet  with  in  and  out  passions 

That  would  trample  down  her  free  institutions. 


I'm MW  n 


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l8.  A     T  R  I  n  U  T  E     T  O     FRANCE 

She  still  stands,  after  all,  phoenixlike 
As  a  Beaam-lighl  and  foremost  diiie, 
To  oppose  with  long  tried  energy 
All  religious  or  social  tyranny; 

She  stands,   though  with  upbraided  fickleness, 
An  emblem  of  sel/will  and  steadiness. 
As  she  stands  the  malicious  oppositions, 
The  assaults  of  party  and  unruly  factions. 

Yet  in  the  worst  time  of  her  life. 
She  placed  herself,   though  with  strife. 
At  the  head  of  the  world-ivide  problem 
That  identifies  her  metric  system. 

May  France  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred, 
Show  to  the  world  fair  and  uplifted 
That  flag  which  carried  the  gospel  of  freedom 
To  peoples  bent  under  the  weight  of  thraldom. 


PART  II. 


Man  is  born  on  a  battle  field, 

Round  him,   attend  or  resist  the  powers  he  displeases. 

Owen  Meredith. 


.._„  --.-^.Mia**, 


Contents  of  Part  II. 


A  Speech, 

Consolation, 

France  lo  Canada, 

Competilion 

A I  a  Public  Table, 

Spite, 

Sisters  of  Charity, 

Virtue,  Courage,  etc.. 

Canvassing, 

To  a  Departed  Sister, 

The  Duke's  Anszver, 

The  Duke's  Soliloquy, 

To  a  Minister, 

Hoffnung, 

Fortitude, 

Ode  to  the  United  States, 


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Delivered  at  the  annual  Banquet,  Jan.,  i8g8,  of  the  Toronto 
Grammar  School's  Old  Boys'  Association. 

Prokkssor  Ai.i-red  Bakkr,  of  Toronto  University,  presiding. 

On  my  return  in  December,  i8g6,  and  after  a  very 
long  absence,  I  had  the  honour  and  pleasure  so  dear  to 
me,  to  experience  I  had  not  altogether  been  forgotten, 
when  I  found  myself  once  more  among  those  I  had  known 
so  young ;  among  those  who  had  been  my  colleagues, 
pupils  and  friends. 

Years  have  passed,  and  a  great  many  changes  have 
taken  place  without  ever  in  the  least  altering  my  love  and 
passion  for  Canadian  society,  Canadian  habits  and  ideas, 
or  my  sworn  allegiance  to  this  splendid  Canada  of  ours. 

I  found  on  my  arrival,  that  unlike  me,  those  who  had 
steadfastly  remained  at  their  post,  had  risen  to  eminence 
and  well  earned  notoriety. 

Some  had  become  judges,  eminent  lawyers,  engineers, 
principals  of  high  schools,  professors  in  Universities  and 
thereof  president  and  statesmen. 

"Yet,  I  could  not  forget  my  former  friends 
"To  whom  I  do  give  as  many  Godsends; 
"They  were  by  right  installed  in  high  places 
"To  bring  forcibly  out  their  clever  faces, 
"That  had  preserved  the  same  dignity 
"I  had  witnessed  in  their  infancy; 
"And  which  it  was  given  me  to  behold, 
"Both  when  we  were  young  and  are  now  old. 


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SPEECH 


I  strove  to  bring  back  again  my  name  and  labours  to 
memory,  and  I  published  some  few  poems  of  my  Leisure 
Hours. 

It  appears,  however,  that  my  endeavours  did  not 
realize  my  legitimate  and  sanguine  expectations;  in  fact, 
it  was  mooted  that  those  poetical  effusions  would  be  injurious 
to  vie;  it  was  even  written  they  would  probably  be  very 
disadvantageous,  since  there  was  nothing  so  far  that  could 
be  seen  from  which  the  world  would  conclude  I  would  be  a 
good  teacher  or  leader  of  conversation  and  the  like. 

Perhaps  again,  it  may  have  been  thought  I  had  too 
boldly  stamped  my  humble  name  with  names  of  a  higher 
order. 

Be  it  what  it  may,  a  strong  current  of  opposition  and 
other  impediments  deterred  me  from  publishing  other 
scripts  in  French  and  in  English,  which  are  still  waiting 
for  a  more  favorable  opportunity. 

Hence,  I  might  say  in  my  usual  strain  : 

"Beaten  by  the  storms,  the  fates,  the  rain, 
"Shall  I  then  hopelessly  and  in  vain 
"Swerve  from  that  spreading,  shady  maple-tree 
"That  clung  so  long  to  my  memory? 

"  When  thus  alone  I  am  in  the  world, 
"Sighing  after  that  rest  which  no  word 
"Can  in  any  language  well  express, 
"  B^  what  art,  by  what  other  address 
"Shall  I  my  Canadian  love  utter, 
"  And  live  and  be  with  you  for  ever  ? 

For  the  Land  of,  etc. 


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,  far  that  could 
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FRANCE     TO     CANADA 

CONSOLATION 

Le  style,  c'est  Ihomnic. 

Old  Proverb. 

There  is  Conso/alion,  when  loved  by  the  Muse, 
To  dip  one's  pen  in  ink  and  by  Her  art  and  use 
Defend  one's  name  against  the  spiteful  abuse 
Of  him  who  would  with  a  sly  backbiting  tongue, 
{Pour  into  others  ready  and  willing  ears) 
All  what  might  injure  and  work  one's  life  wrong  ; 

Following  the  onslaught  of  a  cowardly  foe 

That  strikes  one  in  the  dark  with  a  dastardly  blow. 


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FRANCE   TO   CANADA 


OR 


Fkom  Ease  and  Comfort  to  Famine 

77r<?  deast  that  beats  vie,  tired  of  my  woe, 
Plods  dully  OH,  to  bear  that  weight  in  me, 
As  if  by  interest  the  7vretch  did  know 
His  rider  lov'd  not  speed,  being  made  from  thee. 

SUAKESPKAKE,  Son.    1. 

I  was  once  your  pupil,  said  he, 

When  in  my  mansion,  in  France,  he  saw  me. 

How  judicious  it  is  now,  good  judge, 

To  remember  the  past  without  grudge  ! 

Yes,  dear  Emile,  chimed  in  Mary, 

I  am  glad  to  see  you  with  plenty. 


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-Trr'"Wnid 


24  COMPETITION     AND     OPPOSITION 

My  husband,  once  a  language  teacher, 

Thought  he'd  succeed  better  as  a  lawyer, 

Though  he  ne'er  could  with  ease  and  comfort  express 

What  he  had  cramm'd  with  such  effort  and  srcccss; 

He  eyed  me  to  help  him  on  his  way, 

As  I  belong  to  a  better  family. 

You  plagued  him,  he  told  me  so, 

Because  you  laughed  at  him  high  and  low: 

He  would  revenge  for  atild  hutg  syne. 

And  now,  my  dear,  not  being  thine, 

I  must  in  duty  bound  obtain. 

Which  gives  me,  though,  so  much  pain, 

The  forgiveness  of  my  failings, 

My  indifference  to  his  feelings; 

Therefore,  adieu  and  au  revoir  ! 

The  parting  was  in  sorry  nor  merry  face 
Done  with  shakehands  and  the  like  as  a  solace. 
Thus  ended  that  deep  laid  affair. 
Since  all  in  love  or  war  is  fair. 

COMPETITION   AND  OPPOSITION  *! 

Miscria  y  avidcz,  dinero  y  prosa 
En  vil  viercado  convertido  el  muudo 

EsrUONCEDA. 

If  competition  is  to  be  the  life  of  trade, 
Opposition  is  a  road  to  fame,  be  it  said. 
Indeed,  so  many  there  are  who  with  levity 
Limit  their  free  will,  their  own  activity 
To  no  other  aim  than  that  pursuit  general 
Which  is  nothing  else  than  material,  commercial ; 


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And  which  with  them  maintain  their  short  and  fleeting  days 
In  that  superfluous  abundance  which  nature  lays 
Within  our  reach,  at  our  feet,  and  seems  to  prevail 
Over  our  hearts,  minds,  feelings,  as  0/ no  avail. 


AT  A  PUBLIC  TABLE 

Would  to  God  that  common  sense 
Were  more  common,  more  diffuse  ! 
It  would  be  a  great  deliverance 
From  so  much  nonsense  in  use. 

What  a  fatigue  ! 
To  hear  repeated  ad  libitum 
The  see-saws  so  hard  to  fathom  ; 
To  hear  the  jests,  the  vulgarities 
That  are  akin  to  insanities. 

Since  refinement  and  politeness 

Require  intellect  and  fitness 

For  social,  genial  intercourse 

Which,  indeed,  springs  from  a  good  source, 

Then, 
Ignorance,  which  too  often  bold. 
Fills  many,  many  a  household, 
Should  not  so  lightly  be  let  loose 
With  its  stories  of  Mother  Goose, 

Which  make  it  so  unpalatable 
At  a  decent  and  public  table, 
For  those  whose  ordinary  thoughts 
Can't  very  well  bear  vulgar  noughts. 


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SPITE 


SPITE 

Vel  I  may  look  with  heart  unshook 
On  blow  brought  home  or  missed, 
Yet  may  I  hear  with  equal  ear 
The  clarions  down  the  list. 
Yet  rest  my  lance  above  mischance 
And  ride  the  barriere. 

RuDYARD  Kipling.     Many  Inventions. 

Just  as  the  course  of  true  love  never  ran  smooth, 
So  must  I  be  prepared  for  any  man's  tout 
That  would  with  a  slandering,  lithesome  mouth 
Bring  upon  me,  my  life's  greatest  wrong  to  boot. 

At  all  times  have  I  seen  young  or  old  men's  rancour 
Ply  with  hypocrisy,  want  of  faith  and  honour, 
Dart  at  me  their  envious,  treacherous  scheme 
Thai  would  lower  me  in  other  people's  esteem. 

With  their  grinning,  malicious  and  dire  hints 
Expect  to  surprise  with  their  stupid  taints 
The  innocent  pure  and  sympathetic  strain 
0/  those  whose  love  or  friendship  I  could  obtain. 

May  God  in  His  powei  and  divine  Mercy 
Thwart  all  those  old  flimsy  weapons  tlnown  at  me  ! 
Let  Him,  I  beseech  Him,  the  Almighty, 
Help  me  to  weather  this  long  adversity. 

May  people  in  the  truthfulness  of  iny  heart 
Be  assured  I  spurn  the  senseless  art 
Which  consists  in  building  a  reputation 
With  men  whose  lives  are  an  utter  negation 
0/  all  thai  tvhich  is  noble,  grand  and  true, 
Provided  they  their  own  riches  accrue. 


"«>MiHiaaHi*M 


SISTERS     OF     CHARITY 


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SISTERS   OF   CHARITY* 


p.  t 


The  mission  of  woman :  born  to  nurse. 
And  to  soothe,  and  to  solace,  to  help  and  to  heal 
The  sick  world  that  leans  on  her — these  were : 

Owen  Meredith. 

Sweet  angels  of  the  present,  sweet  ones  of  the  future ! 
Could  any  one  behold  in  the  wide  spent  nature 
Th'  earth's  daintiest  beauties  to  such  goodness  added, 
And  be  indifferent  to  their  actions  acted  ? 

Those  lovely,  delicate  and  unspeakable  graces 
Would  men's  hearts  with  their  pure  angelic  faces 
Enrapture  and  make  them  ever  sing  the  joys 
Which  Heaven  itself  seldom  to  mortals  convoys. 

In  the  unforgotten  time  past,  the  gods  on  earth 
Did  descend  to  mingle  with  men's  homely  hearths, 
Since  they  found  away  from  their  high  Olympus 
Dearer  and  lovelier  angels  who  now  for  us 

Alone  lay  to  our  hearts  and  aching  feeble  bodies 
Those  balms  the  ancient  gods  beyond  their  towering  skies 
Envied  us  simple  mortals  we  still  are  and  then  ^vere. 
And  which  they,  though  immortals,  could  not  find  elsewhere. 

I  wish  I  could  under  their  gentle  feminine  hands 

Rest  for  ever  with  them  in  everlasting  lands, 

Where  they  would  vc\y  bodj'  nurse  as  well  as  my  soul, 

And  my  pains  and  worldly  taints  with  their  hearts  condole! 


♦  Who  nursed  me  while  gripped,  Jatiiiary,  iSgS. 


28      V  I  R  T  U  K  ,     COURAGE,     GOODNESS,     CHARITY 

Life's  short  station  would  readily  be  well  filled, 
If  love  were  to  our  race  oftener  distilled; 
It  would  prove  and  show  what  sublime  eternity 
Prepares  for  those  whose  love  recalls  the  Divinity. 


VIRTUE,  COURAGE,   GOODNESS,  CHARITY. 

Through  wantonness  if  men  profess 
They  ivcary  of  thy  parts, 
E'en  let  them  die  at  blasphemy 
And  perish  ivith  their  arts. 

RUDYARD   KU'LINC 

Virtue,  courage,  goodness  and  charity 
Have  at  all  times  been  hurt  and  hunted  down 
By  those  whose  souls  are  full  of  depravity. 
They  know  full  well  and  they  feel  with  a  frown 

On  their  brows  steeped  in  wanton  device, 
That  their  only  chance  in  their  deep  set  vice, 
Is  to  trample  others  so  rich  in  virtues 
Which  their  corrupt  natures  in  their  issues 

Cannot  bear  to  see  with  satisfaction 
Rise  unblemished  any  pure  notion. 

A  long  expectation,  the  dire  insults 
Will  ever  more  increase  in  their  results 
The  love  which  truth  and  perfect  grandeur 
Bring  to  those  whose  souls  are  full  of  valour. 

Let  us  then  bear  with  peaceful  constancy 
The  envenomed  traits  of  dire  jealousy. 


ITY 


CANVASSING    UNDER    DIFFICULTIES,     ETC.       2g 


iiity. 


God  will  always  side  with  the  glorious  angels 
Who  to  His  will,  commands,  shall  not  be  rebels; 
And  who  by  their  actions,  fine  thoughts  and  words 
Must  fill  with  their  pure  life  all  other  worlds 

With  that  delightful,  seraphic  atmosphere 

Of  love,  beauty,  chanty,  their  real  sphere; 

Those  angelic  souls  must  in  the  end  attain 

The  rewards  which  Christ  promised  they  shall  obtain. 


CANVASSING   UNDER  DIFFICULTIES  WITH 
JOB'S  PATIENCE.* 

Anon, 
Still  impelVd  by  necessity  hungrily  on. 
He  conquers  the  realms  of  his  own  reliance, 
And  the  last  cry  of  fear  wakes  the  first  of  defiance. 

Owen  Meredith. 


Some  people  say  I  have  no  patience, 
That  I  tire  myself  out  of  existence  ; 
That  going  at  it  slow  and  sure, 
I'll  get  all  I  want  at  leisure. 


To  listen  to  ev'ry  one's  counsel 
Does  not  a  whit  advance  my  sell; 
For  delays  and  hope  can  not  stay 
My  pangs  and  worries  of  the  day. 


*  Warner's  World's  Library. 


30        CANVASSING    UNDER    DIFFICULTIES,    ETC, 


Those  whose  daily  life  secure 
Makes  them  feel  happy  and  sure, 
Do  not  in  the  slightest  realize 
Whence  my  wants  and  troubles  arise. 


To  weather  the  ills  and  smarts, 
The  world's  indifference  and  darts, 
Requires  Job's  patience  and  endurance. 
And  I  do  not  possess  his  reliance. 


In  the  past  ages  long  gone  by. 
Job  lived  under  a  milder  sky  ; 
Did  not  require  the  ups-to-date, 
Relied  on  God's  mercy  for  his  fate. 


My  daily  fatigues  the  same 
Tire  me  out  and  spoil  the  fame 
I  might  in  other  ways  and  variety, 
Turn  to  better  account  and  tranquility. 


By  ryming  in  manifold  verses 
My  want,  my  pain,  my  loneliness, " 
Which  make  of  me  a  woeful  wanderer, 
A  species  of  an  aimless  adventurer. 


TO     A     DEPARTED     SISTER 


3' 


TO    A   DEPARTED    SISTER 

Like  the  ministering  fairy  that  brings  from  her  bower 
To  some  in  zze  all  the  treasures,  whose  use  the  fond  elf 
More  enrich'd  by  her  love,  disregards  for  herself. 

Owen  Meredith. 

O  thou  !  dear  sister,  whose  motherly,  tender  care 
Of  my  youth  and  of  me  that  for  thee  were 
Thy  only  aim,  only  love  and  haven, 
How  nobly  my  life  didst  thou  enliven  ! 

Thou,  ever  so  good,  so  pure,  so  strong  and  sweet 
To  me,  thy  Emile,  always  ready  to  meet, 
To  pet,  to  love,  to  cherish  and  to  teach; 
With  thy  sterling  virtues  his  soul  to  reach  ! 

How  happy  weren't  we  together  the  three  of  us  ! 
Learned  Alphonse  the  sad,  thou  sweet,  gentle  Virginie; 
Myself,  thy  Emile,  so  restless,  so  mischieveous; 
Yet,  ever  ready  to  hearken  to  thine  entreaty  ! 


Be  thou  blessed  by  me  surviving  thee  ! 
Thou,  loving,  charming  and  dear  Virginie, 
Whose  memory  recalls  to  my  remembrance 
The  virtuous  women  of  la  belle  France. 


If 


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WHAT     THE     D  U  K  K     M  AY     H  A  V  F,     SPOKEN 


WHAT   THE   DUKE    MAY    HAVE   SPOKEN 


rhe  Duke- 
Uttering  words  he  dared  never  recall, 
Words  of  insult  and  menace  he  thundered  down  all. 
Owen  Mekeditii.     Lucile. 

"  Either  you  are  really  noble,  sincere  and  virtuous, 

*'  Or  else  false,  dishonest,  heartless  and  frivolous. 

"  Your  changing  moods,  your  me^nless,  useless  words 

"  Must  tear  down  a  man's  soul,  break  the  chords 

"Of  the  remaining  life's  passion  you  raised  in  his  bosom; 


•'  Unable  your  deceiving  looks  and  alluring  kiss  to  fathom, 
"  You  may  sever  forever  that  strong  tie  of  my  love, 
*'  And  fling  your  heart  away  like  the  flight  of  a  dove; 
"But  you  will  nevertheless  have  wrought  an  everlasting 

shame 
"  On  woman's  endearing  kisses  and  a  virgin's  name, 
"  By  your  heartless  conception  of  a  man's  passion 
"  You  entertained  falsely  by  deep  equivocation. 


"  False  to  yourself  as  you  are  false  to  me, 

"  You  will  make  my  fate  a  fate  that  Lucy 

"  Prepared  for  those  who  durst  their  love  to  thee  declare, 

"  And  invite  them  conquer  thee,  though  false,  if  they  dare. 

"  Let  us,  Lucy,  for  ever  part  from  each  other's  heart, 

"  And  let  me  suffer  the  tribute  of  thy  artful  art. 


■/ 


THE     duke's     soliloquy 

^^  And  further,  Lucy: 
"When  woman  in  the  pride  of  self-reliance 
"  Means  to  have  for  others'  love  no  compliance, 
"  Then,  does  she  in  her  fitful  and  selfish  concern 
"  Her  nature  descry,  her  calling  undiscern; 
"  Refuses  the  living,  adheres  to  the  past, 
"  And  makes  the  present  and  future  the  outcast. 

THE   DUKE'S   SOLILOQUY 

"  Be  it  what  it  may,  sore  as  my  soul  is, 

"  None  can  expect  much  happiness  here  : 

''  The  ever  changing  moods  of  men  and  women 

"  Keep  our  hopes,  our  pleasant  dreams 

"  From  ever  reaching  the  goal,  the  haven 

"  Which  sheltered  our  joys  uncertain. 

'•  We  are  the  wanderers  of  this  world  ; 
"  So  many  of  us,  let  us  say  the  word, 
"  That  had  prepared  in  full  piety 
•'  A  quiet  harbour  full  of  modest  plenty, 
"  Struggle  with  trouble,  with  constancy 
"  Which  seem  as  ''ain  as  woman's  frailty. 


TO    A   MINISTER   OF   THE   GOSPEL 

When  religion,  truth,  and  eloquence, 
Can  in  so  many  ways  proclaim 
God's  reign.  His  power  and  triumph 
Over  men's  weakness  and  passions, 
Then,  go  ye  and  teach  all  nations. 


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I- '  E  S  1'  K  K  A  N  C  K 


HOFFNUNG* 


Im  Glucck  nicUt  jubcln  nnd  ini  Thuim  nicht  zafi;cii, 
Das  Unvcrvicidliche  mil  IViicrdf  tra^j^rii  ; 
Das  Recht  l/iiiu,  am  Sr/ioriieu  sir/i  crfri'iicit, 
Das  Lchcn  lichen  nnd  den   Tod  iiic/il  schcucu, 
Utid  fast  an  Gott  nnd  bcsscirn  Zukunfl  frlanhcn, 
Heisst  Ichen,  hcisst  don  Tod  scin  Bittcrcs  ratibcn. 

Stkkckkuss. 


HOPE 


H     Hearken  not  to  thoughts  of  foolish  pride, 
E     Endure  adversity,  its  stings  deride  ; 

Adhere  to  truth  and  to  righteousness, 

Very  justly  love  life,  nevertheless  ; 

Elevate  thy  spirit,  beauty  endearing  ; 

Never  fear  death,  hope  for  life  everlasting. 


Love  God,  believe  in  His  Mercy, 
Then,  shalt  thou  live  in  happiness 
And  rob  death  of  its  bitterness. 


L'ESPERANCE 

L  La  vertu  consiste  a  modercr  notre  joie, 

E  Et  a  ne  point  faiblir  en  chemin  sur  la  voie, 

c  Chaque  fois  que  Ton  souffre  un  malheur,  un  chagrin, 

I  Image,  avant-coureur  d'une  prochaine  fin; 

E     En  suivant  le  sentier  de  la  douce,  patience, 
I.     La  route  supreme  d'une  pure  conscience. 

Aimons  le  bien,  le  beau;  ainions,  adorons  Dieu  ; 

II  offre  sans  cesse  pres  de  Lui  en  Haut-lieu, 
Ce  qu  'II  nous  a  promis,  cette  vie  eternelle 

Qui  rend  pour  nous  la  mort  plus  douce  ou  moins  cruelle. 


*  Translated  from  the  German. 


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■•uss. 


FORTITUDE 

Privc  de  tons  les  miens  et  dc  ceu.r  que  j'aimais, 
Jc  me  vols  aujoiirdhui  seid  et  tristc  a  jamais. 

E.  C. 
Many  a  time  do  we  not  see 

A  man's  life  to  be  what  it  shouldn't  be, 
When  he  suffers  the  pangs,  the  worries. 
The  smarts  of  blasted  hopes  and  joys. 

It  makes  him,  though,  remember  we  were  born 
To  suffer,  to  struggle,  to  fight  and  to  mourn. 


lagrin, 


ODE 

To    LlliKRTY    AND    THE    Un'ITKI)    StATKS, 

Respectfully  inscribed  to  WILLIAM  McKinlev, 
the  glorious  Prksidknt  ok  thk  Unitf.I)  Statks. 

Le  premier  qui  fut  roi,  fut  un  soldat  heureux  ; 
Qui  sert  bien  son  pays,  n'a  pas  besoin  d'aiux. 

V. 


cruelle. 


11  est  de  ces  preux  qu'on  compte  par  mille  et  milje 
Qui,  loin  de  leurs  pays,  fuyant  les  bruits  de  ville, 
Laisserent  en  ces  climats  de  guerres  tourmentes, 
Des  noms  que  I'histoire  n'a  guere  rapportes. 
Tout  meurt,  tout  s'oublie :  c'est  en  vain  qu'  on  remue 
Cendres  et  parchemins  auxquels  on  attribue 
Le  souvenir  de  ceux  qui,  aux  Etats-Unis, 
Vinrent  les  aider  en  heros  et  en  amis. 


HMB" 


ODE  TO  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Plus  d'un  siecle  ecoule,  cette  nouvelle  terre, 
Plchic  de  ficrs  en/ants  qui  eurent  tout  a  faire, 
Indomptables  esprits,  veritables  Chretiens, 
Hommes  sohres,  nobles,  et  d'ame  et  de  coeur  pleins, 
Demontre  que  rhomme  pent  seul  et  sans  tutcllc 
A^'ec  la  Liberie  faire  tout  avec  Elk; 
Minnie  atteindre  a  ce  que  les  vieux  Europeans 
r'^'ont  su  faire  chez  eux  apres  plus  de  mille  ans. 


Du  present,  du  pays(5,  I'experience,  I'histoire 
Nous  indiquent  sciemment  qu'  il  est  un  fait  notoire 
Que  le  peuple  assorvi,  manquant  de  religion. 
Manque  aussi  de  force  et  pure  et  noble  ambition 
Pour  acquerir  surtout  Taction  bienfaitrice 
Que,  seul,  la  Libertc,  meilleure  institutrice, 
Donne  comme  apanage  a  ses  nobles  enfants 
Qui  out  quitti;  leurs  pays  et  aussi  leurs  parents  ; 
Criatil,  pour  ainst  dire,  une  autre  race  dlwmmcs 
Libres  de  prdjugds  et  tout  ce  que  nous  sommes; 
Et  rappelant  enfin  dans  un  sens  religieux 
Ce  qui  nous  rapnroche  de  plus  en  plus  de  Dieu. 


C'est  a,  leur  rude  ecole,  exempte  d'artifices, 
Qu'  on  voit  de  nos  aieux  les  nobles  sacrifices, 
lis  nous  ont  par  leur  vie  et  I'exemple  arraches 
A  la  tyrannic  des  rois  et  des  gens  homes. 


ns, 


ODE  TO  THE  UNITED  STATES 

Ces  couTCageux  pionm'ers,  qui  avaient  delaisse 
Leurs  berceaux,  leurs  foyers,  ce  qu'  ils  avaient  aime, 
Ont  vu  leur  Constance,  leur  foi  et  leur  puissance 
Lutler,  comhattre  et  vainer e  Unite  resistance. 


Leur  exemple  bientot  aura  pass6  les  mers, 
Car  il  donne  aux  nations  encore  dans  les  fers 
La  pensee  exacte  que  toute  creature 
A  droit  a  la  justice,  ii  la  saine  culture; 
A  ces  biens  d'ici-bas  qui  doivent  pas  a  pas 
Conduire  nos  ames  audela  du  trepas. 
Dieu  ne  nous  a  donn6  cette  bien  courte  vie 
Pour  qu'  a  tout  pour  le  ciel  on  la  lui  sacrifie  : 
II  nous  r  a  donnde  pour  que  nous  en  usions 
En  toute  Jouissancc,  en  de  nobles  ambitions, 

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Notre  libre  Amerique  aura  donnd  I'exemple 

De  ce  que  peut  faire  la  liberty  plus  ample, 

Ce  n'est  pas  en  vain  que  la  France  a  eu  raison 

U aider  par  ses  amies  cette  j'eune  nation  I 

Henri  IV.  ambitieux  prefdra  une  messe 

Pour  conserver  Paris  et  son  trone  en  d<^tresse ; 

II  remit  la  France  sous  cet  infanie  joug 

De  ceux  qui  conspiraient,  avaient,  possedaient  tout. 


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Le  genie  frangais  dans  toute  sa  puissance 

A  brav6  les  rois  par  sa  male  resistance 

Qui,  malheureusement,  dut  amener  plus  tard 


3« 


ODE  TO  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Cette  Revolution,  re   errible  avatar 

D'un  peuple  trop  longtemps  courbe  sous  I'esclavage 

D'oii  rois  et  princes  fiers  d'un  si  grand  advantage, 

AUaient  se  croire  isstis  dun  bicn  phis  noble  sang 

Que  celui  qui  coule  dans  le  corps  d'un  paysan. 


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Tout  peuple  qui  du  bien  a  conserve  le  gernie, 
Acquerra  surement,  je  le  dis  haut  et  ferme, 
Le  fruit  de  ses  labeurs  en  recolte  assures 
Que  Dieu  promet  aux  arbres  droil  plantes. 
Ceux  qui  auront  ici  I e  plus  ait?ie  leurs  frtres, 
Honnetement  agi,  et  honore  leurs  pcres, 
Jouiront  de  leur  bonheur  comme  de  leur  salut, 
Puisque  I  'amour  du  Bien  avail  ele  leur  but. 


Benis  soient  les  peuples  sages,  bons,  vrais,  austeres  ! 

lis  ont  acquis  pour  eux  et  gloire  et  caracteres; 

lis  auront  enseignd  a\  jc  le  cours  des  aiis 

Que  les  hommes  ne  sont  pas  toujour s  des  enfant s. 

lis  doivent  selon  Dieu,  s'ils  sont  a  son  image, 

Se  d(5velopper  par  une  conduite  sage  ; 

Ne  point  ctre  soumis  fl  ces  tronipcuses  gens 

Qui  se  servent  d'eux  et  les  tournent  en  tous  sens. 


i 


ODE     TO     THE     UNITED     STATES 
ID 

II  n'en  est  pas  ainsi  d'Espagne  si  vaillante, 

Autrefois  si  forte  et  aujourd'hui  defaillante ; 

De  r  Espagne  si  riche  ou  ne  se  couchait  pas 

Le  soleil  brillant  sur  ses  immenses  Etats. 

Revenons  a  la  foi,  au  sublime  Evangile  ! 

Sachons  que  nous  I'avons  tous  comme  guide  habile. 

L'idee  rhretienne,  la  vie  de  Jesus 

Qui  vint  sur  la  terre  confondre  les  abus, 

Sacrifiant  sur  la  Croix  cette  mortelle  vie 

Pour  nous  arracher  a  une  mort  d'infamie, 

Resume,  en  tant  que  nous,  son  exemple,  sa  hi, 

La  vie,  eternelle,  V  csperance  et  hi  foi. 


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They  are  slaves  who  fear  to  speak 
For  the  fallen  and  the  weak  ; 

They  are  slaves  who  would  not  choose 

Hatred,  scoffing,  and  abuse. 

Rather  than  in  silence  shrink 

From  the  truth  they  needs  must  think  ; 

They  are  slaves  who  dare  not  be 
In  the  right  with  two  or  three. 


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